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The Service Academy Workout - Military Officer Fitness - Candidate Fitness Assessment Training Program - Crush the CFA! FREE - Check out the new CFA Calculator to see if you are scoring in the competitive range!  Do you want to get selected into military officer programs like the United States Service Academies and serve your country as a military officer?  Have you experienced failure to receive the results you need to be competitive? Failing to train specifically for this test can make you apprehensive about even applying, but what if I told you all it takes is a few months...

Stew Smith's Navy SEAL Grinder PT - The Key to Mental Toughness Program (Book/eBook) The definition of "grinder' is the concrete-asphalt area at BUD/S where the students do their calisthenics workouts. It is surrounded by pullup bars, dip bars and the instructors, training officer, and commanding officer's offices. You have the constant feeling of always being watched while you are on the "grinder". So, put out hard, count loud, and cheer your class through the workout or you will wind up doing the workout "wet and sandy" or spend an hour in the leaning rest! The Grinder PT Workout has been...

Stew Smith Fitness I help struggling military, law enforcement, and firefighter candidates get to and through intense tactical assessment and selection programs. Using my books, ebooks, podcasts, articles, and online coaching, we will help you prepare and qualify for service in the tactical professions. Our Mission:  We at Stew Smith Fitness prepare men and women for any tactical profession requiring a fitness test and advanced training.  Your fitness level may one day be the difference between life and death.  It pays to fit fitness into your schedule. We can help you do that. Here is what you get with Stew Smith CSCS...

What are two DANGER signs that affect special ops candidate's success? Photo from https://dmcburnett.com/ Nearly 80% of candidates get this wrong! Some Special Ops instructors claim they can tell who will make it or not in the first week.  How do they know this? Experience and observation skills:  Both personal experience as a student as well as experience as an instructor.  They also a keen understanding of what it means to be physically capable and that can be observed quickly after a long day of spec ops testing and evaluation.  However, watching how students get along with their classmates is also...

The following collection of BOOKS and downloadable EBOOKS are preparation guides not only for the entrance fitness test to get TO training, but also workouts that include many of the challenging events you should prepare for while you are going THROUGH training.   Some of the toughest training programs in the world are listed below with detailed workout programs to help you build a foundation the yields success to get TO and THROUGH the training pipeline. Success requires advanced levels of fitness that you may not be aware that you are even capable of achieving.  Tough preparation training helps you build the...